Cowork inspired. Team build intentionally.
Industrious, the highest rated flexible workspace and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), have collaborated to bring on an innovative offsite offering to Governors Island this summer.
Eight minutes away from Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights, Industrious x LMCC at Governors Island provides an exclusive setting for teams of up to 50 members, where company culture can grow and creativity can soar.
IDesigned to encourage blue sky thinking the unique location, surroundings, and activities create a fully immersive experience with offerings including guided walking tours of Governors Island, composting workshops with Earth Matter Inc., artist-led workshops, private tours of the summer exhibitions and food and beverage catering by Great Performances, Taco Vista and Island Oyster. It's a full day and night.
This unique offsite is available Monday - Friday, June - September, starting at $2500 for a team of up to 50 members to book for the day. Additional amenities are listed below and are priced per team or per person.
Over the last few years many companies have suffered from a lack of collaboration, connection, and creativity; Now is the time for them to bring their teams together in a unique, inspiring setting just minutes from Manhattan.
Governors Island is a highly accessible but remote-like location that lends the excitement of a destination with the functionality of an 8-minute ferry ride from Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Industrious at The Arts Center at Governors Island is designed to encourage real blue sky thinking thanks to the surroundings and activities that make the excursion a fully immersive experience.
Members will have access to the artist gallery, with amenity add ons to take advantage of everything the Island has to offer, allowing teams to flourish and connect like never before.
The Arts Center at Governors Island is the first permanent home for arts and culture on Governors Island, an incubator for creative experimentation, and a space for engagement and dialogue. Curated and programmed by LMCC, work developed and presented at The Arts Center focuses on sustainability and equity.
From late May through October, The Arts Center is open for our public season, where visitors can experience special gallery exhibitions and monthly programs that provide access and connections to artists and their creative process. The Take Care Series of public programs focuses on art, community, and ecology through hands-on workshops, talks, film screenings, and more. Open Studios offers the public a behind the scenes experience with LMCC's artists-in-residence.
Programming and events are free and open to the public from Fridays through Sundays, and all are welcome.
The Arts Center is also home to working artists from diverse disciplines and practices who participate in Artist Residency programs all year long. More information about LMCC’s residency programs at Governors Island can be found at www.lmcc.net/lmcc-arts-center-at-governors-island.
This is a private walking tour led by the Friends of Governors Island covering Governors Island’s history and transformation into the extraordinary public space it is today. The tour will share information about the creation of the award-winning park, transformative public art, and the Island’s future as a climate research hub.
A private tour of the gallery exhibitions will provide insight into the perspectives of each artist’s ideas about time and their interpretation of personal history, objects we collect, intergenerational relationships and more. Featured artists for the 2023 season have produced site-specific installations that take inspiration from LMCC’s long history as a supporter of the arts through the theme of “The Passage of Time”.
Hosted at The Arts Center’s Upper Gallery, Where Time Runs Backwards is a multimedia exhibition featuring five new site-specific works by Taiwanese-born artist Daniel Shieh, who returns to The Arts Center as a ‘21-’22 alumni of LMCC’s Arts Center Residency program. Incorporating light, sound, and kinetic elements, Shieh’s large-scale, interactive structures sing, rotate, and orbit, inviting the visitor to enter and inhabit this bustling environment. Shieh blends his personal history with cultural icons such as the Voyager Golden Record and the American anthem, opening up an inquiry into national identity and diasporic family relationships.
Shieh’s work will be paired with the poetry of Chia-Lun Chang—recipient of LMCC’s 2022 Sarah Verdone Writing Award—and textile works by Arleene Correa Valencia. The three artists draw upon conversations with their parents about aspirations for their children and what it means to be American. The title “Where Time Runs Backwards” refers to the artists' means of self-determination—endlessly retracing the past decisions of their antecedents in order to make sense of their future.
Rhonda Weppler, ‘21-’22 alumni of LMCC’s Arts Center Residency, and Trevor Mahovsky will present a new site-specific installation, titled 'There is nothing you can think that is not the Moon', in The Arts Center’s cafe.
A mysterious black shed housing a cornucopia of glowing versions of antique and vintage objects, this work is a variation of Twilight, the artists’ ongoing public art project, previously staged as life-scale mock antique and thrift stores on the streets of Washington, Toronto, and Orebro, Sweden. Each object is a replica in the form of a handmade lantern, assembled from photographs of objects collected and intensively documented by the artists in each city Twilight has visited.
For the Governors Island installation, these lanterns appear as an island of light inside the dark storehouse that archives them. They are lit in changing patterns, which organize the hodgepodge collection into categories such as type, era, and city of origin.
Before the final month of the installation, the lanterns will be given away and replaced by lanterns made by the public through free workshops offered during the exhibition’s run.
Supporting artists across disciplines, The Arts Center’s Lower Gallery will once again be devoted to film, this time through a new partnership with Allies in Arts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting artists who identify as women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+. In partnership with LMCC, Allies in Arts will curate an exhibition of films and videos celebrating the progress of artists fighting for the liberation of women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized groups over the last half century. The exhibition will explore The Arts Center’s 2023 theme, "the passage of time," not as a passive phenomenon, but as dependent upon activist and aesthetic actions—i.e. if people don't organize, laws and norms won't change. Time stands still until people actively fight against oppression and for liberation.
ANTI•VENOM details how our future is forged by activists and artists, like the many creatives LMCC has supported over its 50 year history. Featuring alumni from LMCC's programs and emerging artists who are moving the conversation forward, the exhibition is curated by artist Sophia Wallace in collaboration
with Allies in Arts Director Drew Denny.
